Android and iOS have 99.7 percent market share in smartphone market

Android’s market share has risen to 87.5 percent and iOS is 12.1 of the smartphones delivered, says analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Compared to a year ago, the share of other operating systems has fallen from 2.3 to 0.3 percent.

Google and Apple control almost the entire smartphone market with their mobile operating systems, Stategy Analytics calculates. Other operating systems, such as Windows 10 Mobile and BlackBerry, saw their market share plummet in the past year. Android’s market share grew from 84.1 percent in the third quarter of 2015 to 87.5 percent in the same quarter this year. That growth was at the expense of the market share of iOS and the other operating systems.

Microsoft saw the number of delivered smartphones collapse this year, despite the release of the Lumia 950 series. BlackBerry has not released any devices with its own BlackBerry OS since the end of 2014, but there are still a number of smartphones with that operating system for sale. At the beginning of this year, Mozilla stopped developing its Firefox OS for smartphones.

The analyst firm has also published figures on numbers of smartphones delivered. According to the agency, 375.4 million units were delivered in the past quarter, 6 percent more than last year. This concerns 328.6 million smartphones with Android, 45.5 million iOS devices and 1.3 million phones in the ‘other’ category. Last year, 8.2 million smartphones were delivered with a ‘different’ operating system.

The figures from Strategy Analytics are for the third quarter of this year. In August, Gartner calculated that the combined market share of Android and iOS in the second quarter was 99.1 percent.